Have you idiots forgot the word is survival. to see not be seen which also meet you don't engage people at long range since you then have given them you general location within 1200 yards. keep your ego in your pants and let them walk by. if they don't encounter resistance you've won another day. If you shoot and can't kill everyone around the initial target they rest of the targeted party is now hunting for you. To survive now you must actively engage them or be found since they know your in their area of operation. Be quite let them walk by unharnessed, then they won't probably actively patrol your area as aggressively as if you fracked with them at long range. Piss off a beehive your going to get stung in this case it will kill you. Snipers are always aggressively hunted down and slaughtered not just killed as well as their groups they are supported by.

Well trained snipers for years have done their job without detection or problems with the scenario presented in comment. However the comment is correct if one is untrained in the art. Good warning for the wannabes (like me) thanks

there was an AI in the psg section. the m110 section has a picture of an lwrc ar-15 and what looks like a dpms ar-10. in the accuracy international AWM section the bottom two are Remington 700's in accuracy international chassis. in the Barret m98b section the top pic is a Barret m107a1 and the one below is a Barret m107, neither of which are m98B's. under the timberwolf section the second pic is another remington 700 in an accuracy international chassis. in the Mcmillan tac-50 second the last pic is another Barret m107. so yeah! maybe put some effort in your picture research!

just out of curiosity does the writer of this article have any idea what the affective range of different calibers are? .338 LM is only accurate to 800 yds? have you ever actually fired a single one of these rifles? i assume not because you cant even google the correct picture to put under the name of each rifle. Just an FYI a .338 can go past 2,000 yards in the right hands.

You left out Desert Tactical Arms SRS rifle.. 1/4 MOA out of the BOX… just got back from their Precision 1 school and people who have never shot these are easily hitting 1000 yrds… sounds easy until you try it.. one guy was hitting 1800 yrds…!!! This system is SIC!

Skipped the comments, so I don't know if anyone else has pointed this out, but the picture of the four "SVDs" aren't actually all SVDs. The top one looks like it is the SVD, which is chambered in 7.62x545R, second from the top looks like an NDM-86 (chinese knockoff of the SVD) also in 7.62x54R, the third is the Yugoslavian M76, which fires a different round (8x57mm) and has an action similar to the AK, not the SVD. Last is the Romanian made PSL 7.62x54R as well, which I would classify more as a designated marksman rifle, not a sniper rifle. It's action is built on the RPK, which is basically a larger version of the AK action.

I've been around a long time and seen many developments and mods through the years and actually have a 15 gun sniper collection that dates from the first world war thru Desert storm. Additionally I hold two FBI snipers on the M70 FN actions and a TRG22 SAKO in 308. I've had the good fortune to shoot many of the guns listed in the piece but there is one rifle that I think should have made the list and that's the SAKO TRG 22. It's used by at lease 22 countries as their primary and also many 1000 yard competitors use it. I also see the 38 lapur version of the SAKO sniper and think it is even a better longer range candidate for the list.

I think you need to think about updating the info on the AI as of November 2009 Corporal of Horse (CoH) Craig Harrison using a Accuracy International L115A3 using .338 Lapua Magnum Lock Base B408 had a double kill at 2,475 m (2,707 yd)
(confirmed by GPS) in November 2009, also during the War in Afghanistan, in which he hit two Taliban insurgents consecutively. CoH Harrison killed the two Taliban machine gunners with shots that took the 8.59 mm rounds almost five seconds to hit their targets, which were 914 metres (1,000 yd) beyond the L115A3 sniper rifle’s recommended range. A third shot took out the insurgents’ machine gun.